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To celebrate the WordsThaw Writers Festival in 2018, The Malahat Review is pleased to announce the second-annual WordsThaw Prize. An exciting showcase of emerging talent in Greater Victoria, this contestwill award a cash prize of $500each in two categories: Poetry and Micro Text (either short fiction or creative nonfiction). The entry fee includes a full WordsThaw pass and a one-year subscription to The Malahat Review, starting with the Malahat’s Winter 2017 issue. The winners will be published on the Malahat’s WordsThaw website.

Entry fee (poem or micro text): $20. You are only allowed to enter poetry or micro text, not both. Only one submission will be accepted in either genre.

Entrants receive a full pass to WordsThaw (excluding the March 18, 2018 Master Class), plus a one-year print subscription to The Malahat Review for themselves or a friend. Digital subscriptions or digital/print bundle subscriptions are not available through this contest.

Entrants’ anonymity is preserved throughout the judging. Contact information (including an email address) must not appear on the submission, but on a separate page, along with the entry’s title (see below).

Only shortlisted authors and winners will be notified about the judge’s decisions.

A shortlist of finalists will be announced on March 1, 2018.

The winners will be announced at a reading of the shortlisted authors on March 8, 2018, at the downtown branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library.

The winner in each category will receive a prize of $500; their winning entries will be published in the Martlet, the University of Victoria’s student newspaper.